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Second Reading Podcast: Public Opinion and the Big Unresolved Issues Pending in the Texas Legislature
May 15, 2025 | By: James Henson

James Henson and Joshua Blank look at the big issues still pending in the Texas Legislature, including property taxes, education funding, water, the budget, bail, THC products, and more as deadline pressures suffocate House bills. Also: #txlege theme songs.

Supplemental material and references from the podcast.

Texas Public Opinion and the 89th Legislature Endgame – A blog post that compiles most of the policy results related to the legislative agenda from the April 2025 UT/Texas Politics Project Poll. 

On marijuana attitudes

Property taxes

On a (more or less) lighter note, near the end of the pod we dicussed our (non-Tweeted) responses to this recent post from lobbyist Mia McCord on X/Twitter:

FWIW, our responses, as discussed. They certainly reflect our socialization, I suppose.

Josh's pick:

Jim's pick:

 

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